One Big, Happy Weasley Family

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MG wrote: One Big Happy Weasley Family isn't a bad idea. I actually 
like it, since the Weasleys have so much love for Harry and Hermione 
anyway. I can imagine something like the family-dinner scene in the 
beginning of GoF(snip) and Ginny sitting by Harry and Hermione by Ron 
and... a great big Weasley dinner... with everyone present.
> Minnesota Girlie, being swept off with happy images
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Penny wrote; > "One Big Happy Weasley Family" -- I really am a 
hopeless romantic in alot
> of ways, but this possibility is too sappy even for me.  <g>  
Sorry, but
> it just seems entirely too cliche for JKR.  


Agreed.

And suddenly the whole "Harry dies at the end of Book 7" is starting 
to look appealing..
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> Yes, the One Big Happy Weasley Family thing certainly would be warm 
and fuzzy, but then it would also be warm and fuzzy to have Harry's 
parents come on back from the dead. It would also invalidate all our 
prior experience of the series. Not that the One Big Happy Weasley 
family would go quite that far, but I don't think I'd be alone in 
finding it cloying. One of the most attractive aspects of the HP 
books, and part of the reason I believe it appeals so much to adults, 
is its bracing lack of sentimentality. When Harry finds out he has a 
loving godfather, he * doesn't* get to go live with him and spend the 
rest of his summers toasting marshmallows with Sirius on camping 
trips. When he finds the Mirror that shows him his parents, he 
doesn't get to keep it or look into it again. I always see JKR 
choosing the less sentimental, less pathos-driven narrative path and 
I don't see why she'd change that when the series ends. Unless she 
really, really doesn't want anyone asking her to please write more 
Harry books.
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> Cassie
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